Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!jmj
From: jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Call waiting and modems??
Summary: yes
Message-ID: <8379@mhuxu.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 02:15:54 GMT
References: <8876@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 22

In article <8876@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, sjflim@trillium.waterloo.edu (SJF LIM) writes:
=> I have a Call waiting feature installed on my phone, (assume everybody knows
=> what is Call waiting), this is a very nice feature because I don't have to
=> worry about "busy" tone to the person who is calling me.  Until I've found
=> out that Calling waiting and modem cannot exist together.  The problem is 
=> when someone calls and I am using modem the telephone signal will disconnect 
=> my modem from the phoneline.  Is there anyway that I can by pass the Call
=> waiting feature or temperory disconnect this feature?  Any input will be 
=> helpful.

Check the front of your phone book.  There are instructions for disabling
the Call Waiting beep.  On page 8 of the Reading, PA phone book Tone*Block
is explained.  If I dial a '* 7 0' before I make a call I will not be
interrupted by the beep.  Call waiting is automatically reactivated on the
next call.
You can probably disable Call Waiting with your communications program
by defining one of the Long Distance access characters as this.
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J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA            ...!att!mhuxu!jmj